Database Security

Database Security is the system, processes, and procedures that protect a database from unintended activity. Unintended activity can be categorized as authorized misuse, malicious attacks or inadvertent mistakes made by authorized individuals or processes. Traditionally databases have been protected from external connections by firewalls or routers on the network perimeter with the database environment existing on the internal network.

The challenge of managing, protecting and storing digital data is a major issue for businesses of every size and category. Companies generally rank the improvement of their storage infrastructure as a top objective, and the escalation of data protection costs has become an overriding concern. According to recent research, the data storage capacity of the average North American enterprise is now 59 terabytes, and the projected annual production data growth is 20 to 30 percent.

The need for protecting data is universal – whether a small to mid-size business, the largest enterprise data center, or an individual. The recognition of the value of information and the impact of data loss has reached the point where repeating it is no longer required. The issue now has turned to how to protect the data.

Driven by increasing regulatory scrutiny and the need to protect key corporate assets, concerns about compliance and data leakage have risen to the top of the priority list for today's corporate executives. This paper discusses multiple policies, procedures and processes corporations must consider to remain secure and compliant.

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